sql-server

How to know whether a sql Update statement executed successfully or failed ?

How to know whether a sql Update statement executed successfully or failed ? I use sql server 2005 and C# asp.net. Can I get the successful or failed infomation in C# without adding some sql code into the old sql statement? ...

Error 18456. State 6 "Attempting to use an NT account name with SQL Server Authentication."

2010-05-06 17:21:22.30 Logon Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 6. 2010-05-06 17:21:22.30 Logon Login failed for user . Reason: Attempting to use an NT account name with SQL Server Authentication. [CLIENT: ] The authentication mode is "Mixed". And its MS SQL Server 2008. What might be the issue? Do you think the user name w...

Migrating from SQL Server to firebird: pro and cons

I am considering the migration for 4 reasons: 1) SQLSERVER installation is a nightmare, expecially for 1-user software (Even if typically I have 3-20 users, sometimes I sell my software to single users: it is incredible to have troubles installing the DB, while installing the applicatino means copying an exe...). (note my max installati...

Matching 3 out 5 fields - Django

Hi folks, I'm finding this a bit tricky! Maybe someone can help me on this one I have the following model: class Unicorn(models.Model): horn_length = models.IntegerField() skin_color = models.CharField() average_speed = models.IntegerField() magical = models.BooleanField() affinity = models.CharField() I would like to sea...

Is it possible with dynamic TSQL query ?

I have very long select query which i need to filter based on some params, i'm trying to avoid having different stored procedures or if statements inside of single stored procedure by using partly dynamic TSQL... I will avoid long select just for example sake select a from b where c=@c or d=@d @c and @d are filter params, only one ca...

error handling in asp.net

Hi How can i pass the different types of errors from Data access layer to presentation layer? suppose if we take the northwind database scenario I want to delete the customer, so i selected one customer in ui and clicked the "delete" button.It internally calls the "delete" in data access layer. The prerequisite for deleting the cus...

Fulltext search not returning expected results

I am experimenting with SQL Server full text search. I have a simple Categories table with Id as the primary key: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Category]( [Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [CategoryName] [varchar](100) NOT NULL, ) My Query is: SELECT * FROM FREETEXTTABLE (Category, CategoryName, 'music') AS F INNER JOIN Category C ON ...

Database metadata versioning and synchronization

Our application's DB (SQL Server 2005) has tables for application's metadata. Changes to these metadata tables (I mean insert/update/delete) can be done via GUI interface (not using SSMS). Most of the time developers change their own copy of database. The question is - how to "merge" these changes to metadata records into one? The probl...

Help on choosing which SQL Server 2008 scale-out solution to pick (replication, ...)

I am currently crossing the jungle of SQL Server scale-out technologies like replication, log-shipping, mirroring... I have the following constraints on my choice: I want the read-only load to be spread accross the primary and the secondary (mirror, subscriber) server Write load can be sent directly to the primary server The solution ...

SQL Server stored procedure return code oddity

Hello The client that calls this code is restricted and can only deal with return codes from stored procs. So, we modified our usual contract to RETURN -1 on error and default to RETURN 0 if no error If the code hits the inner catch block, then the RETURN code default is -4 rather then 0 Does anyone know where this comes from please?...

Sql combine 2 rows to one

Hi , i have this table Testers employee name ------------ Sam Korch dan mano i want to combine tow rows to one, it will be "Sam Korch,Dan Mano" i have this query select @theString = COALESCE(@theString + ',', '') + EmployeeName from Testers join vw_EKDIR on Testers.TesterGlobalId = vw_EKDIR.GlobalID where TestId = 31 it w...

How to avoid Foreign Keys constraints for all tables in DB truncate ?

Hi, for designing purposes i need to truncate all DB which has lots of FK's. I cannot use DELETE command simply because some tables set with Identity of TinyInts and contain about 150 items. this is a query ( truncate all tables in selected DB ) i'm trying to run Declare @t varchar (1024) Declare tbl_cur cursor for select TABLE_NAME ...

INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint

I am getting the following error. Could you please help me in ? Msg 547, Level 16, State 0, Line 1 The INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK_Sup_Item_Sup_Item_Cat". The conflict occurred in database "dev_bo", table "dbo.Sup_Item_Cat". The statement has been terminated. insert into sup_item (supplier_id,sup_it...

CF Client Variables: is the CDATA - CGLOBAL relationship always 1:1?

Hi We've noticed something odd with our Coldfusion 8 client variables DB. We have many more (about 3 times as many) CGlobal entries as we have CData entries. I would have assumed that the relationship would be 1:1 on the cfid column. Has any one else noticed this before? I have ruled out old data, my sample is less than 3 hours old. W...

Undo Table Partitioning - SQL Server 2008

I have a table 'X' and did the following CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION PF1(INT) AS RANGE LEFT FOR VALUES (1, 2, 3, 4) CREATE PARTITION SCHEME PS1 AS PARTITION PF1 ALL TO ([PRIMARY]) CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX CIDX_X ON X(col1) ON PS1(col1) this 3 steps created 4 logical partitions of the data I had. My question is, how do i revert this part...

How to convert a SQL Server database (including procedures, functions and triggers) to Firebird

I am considering migrating to Firebird. To have a "quick start" approach I downloaded the trial of a conversion tool (DBConvert) and tried it. I just picked up a random tool, this tool doesn't convert procedures, functions and triggers (I don't think it is a limit of the trial since there is not an explicit reference to sp, sf and trigg...

Tell me SQL Server Full-Text searcher is crazy, not me.

i have some customers with a particular address that the user is searching for: 123 generic way There are 5 rows in the database that match: ResidentialAddress1 ============================= 123 GENERIC WAY 123 GENERIC WAY 123 GENERIC WAY 123 GENERIC WAY 123 GENERIC WAY i run a FT query to look for these rows. i'll show you ea...

foreign key constraints on primary key columns - issues ?

What are the pros/cons from a performance/indexing/data management perspective of creating a one-to-one relationship between tables using the primary key on the child as foreign key, versus a pure surrogate primary key on the child? The first approach seems to reduce redundancy and nicely constrains the one-to-one implicitly, while the...

if an object has no entry in sys.database_permissions are all of its permissions assumed to be "GRANT" ?

Let's say I have a function that is accessed in many stored procedures. If that function has no entries in sys.database_permissions does any account that can run one of the stored procs automatically run the function? This is the query I'm using: exec sp_depends 'dbo.theFunction' -- for each object in those results, run this quer...

More information wanted on error: CREATE ASSEMBLY for assembly failed because assembly failed verification

I have a small application that uses SQL Server 2005 Express with CLR stored procedures. It has been successfully installed and runs on many computers running XP and Vista. To create the assembly the following SQL is executed (names changed to protect the innocent): CREATE ASSEMBLY myAssemblyName FROM 'c:\pathtoAssembly\myAssembly.dll...